2025-06-27
25 分钟The Economist.
Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.
I'm your host, Jason Palmer.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
As we've lurched from one giant news event to another,
markets haven't dipped much or for long.
In fact, yesterday, the S&P 500 and NASDAQ closed near record highs.
It shows a surprising truth about animal spirits.
Big geopolitical trauma just doesn't keep them down.
And the next installment of our Archive 1945 project,
which relives the economists reporting on the last days of war in Europe.
This week, 80 years ago, the founding of the United Nations.
But first… Footage from a body-worn camera shows a bearded man,
his face pressed to a tiled floor.
A gun is held to his head.
He's asked to state his full name.
Speak louder, they shout.
He is José Adolfo Macías, better known as Fito.
the leader of Ecuador's Los Choneros criminal group.
The country's most wanted fugitive was recaptured yesterday after escaping jail last year.